The instructions forgot to mention that the flying parts should balance between 1/4 to 1/3 of the way from the front of the wing to the back. One can fine tune from this point by adding bits of clay. -- Keep 'em flyin'

Hello I have a project to do and I was wondering if someone could help me make a plane that flies but it can not be simple and cannot be a paper planes someone please help me Thank you And P.S.: this project needs to be done by Thursday, March,27,2008 Whenever you send it please try to send it before friday.28 of march and please hurry

I used to do something like this in grade 2 or so. I'd take an empty juice box and put tape on the end of the straw. Then I'd blow into the juicebox untill it bulged a bit, and stick the straw bach in (with the taped end out). Then you could squeeze (or jump on) the juicebox and the straw would shoot away! On another note, if you fill an empty juicebox with air and then jump on it hard, it will make a nice loud bang!

There's a an interesting hierarchy of drinking straws. A McDonalds straw will JUST fit inside a Jack-in-the-Box straw (or the other way around), and they're both larger than the average grocery store straw. Starbucks shows up somewhere, and the fattest I've seen are the ones sold in some asian markets for "bubble tea" (at about 1/2 inch diameter.) At the bottom end are straws that only claim to be "stirrers." This might enable you to use one brand of dtraw for your plane body and another brand for the launcher. You can make rockets from drinking straws as well. Just put fins on the back end instead of wings in the middle...

My kids and I take the large starbucks straw and tie a knot in the end. We then slide it over the small straw. A good puff will launch the large straw 10 feet. It's a good quick diversion for the kids as you grab an energy boost for the rest of the day playing with them :-)

I've made things like this before but I never worried about cutting off the end... Partially because I never had bendy-straws but also because I don't think they'd get in the way if you kept the bendy-end outside the paper tube.